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* StillbornFranchise: There were plans for at least one sequel (likely bringing Eddie and Susannah into the narrative), along with a possible TV miniseries, all made moot by the poor box office.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland Deschain. Roland is described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood. Creator/StephenKing gave Creator/IdrisElba Elba his blessing in the role.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland Deschain. Roland is described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood. Creator/StephenKing has [[ApprovalOfGod given Elba his blessing in the role.]]
* ActorAllusion:
** It's hard to imagine that casting Fran Kranz as a minion whose job is to strap people into chairs that overwrite and use their brainpower wasn't a deliberate ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' reference.
** When [[Creator/IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.
** A year before this movie came out, Creator/MatthewMcConaughey played in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where he was a different kind of "man in black", Beetle.
* ActorAllusion:
** It's hard to imagine that casting Fran Kranz as a minion whose job is to strap people into chairs that overwrite and use their brainpower wasn't a deliberate ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' reference.
** When [[Creator/IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.
** A year before this movie came out, Creator/MatthewMcConaughey played in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where he was a different kind of "man in black", Beetle.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland Deschain. Roland is described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood. Creator/StephenKing has [[ApprovalOfGod given Elba gave Creator/IdrisElba his blessing in the role.]]
* ActorAllusion:
** It's hard to imagine that casting Fran Kranz as a minion whose job is to strap people into chairs that overwrite and use their brainpower wasn't a deliberate ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' reference.
** When [[Creator/IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.
** A year before this movie came out, Creator/MatthewMcConaughey played in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where he was a different kind of "man in black", Beetle.
* ActorAllusion:
** It's hard to imagine that casting Fran Kranz as a minion whose job is to strap people into chairs that overwrite and use their brainpower wasn't a deliberate ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' reference.
** When [[Creator/IdrisElba Deschain]] asks Jake if animals in our world "still talk", it dawns on you he's been in at least two movies where indeed animals did talk, and in [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 both]] of those [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} movies]] he was a talking animal.
** A year before this movie came out, Creator/MatthewMcConaughey played in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where he was a different kind of "man in black", Beetle.
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* TroubledProduction: The film had a ten-year complicated development history; it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later, with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015, though Howard remained as producer. This ''Variety'' [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ article]] revealed that in October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy; in response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character.
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* TroubledProduction: The film had a ten-year complicated development history; it started out in 2007 with Creator/JJAbrams directing before he dropped out two years later, with Creator/RonHoward taking over before ultimately being replaced by Nikolaj Arcel in 2015, though Howard remained as producer. This ''Variety'' [[http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-dark-tower-making-of-stephen-king-1202511835/ article]] revealed that in October 2016, the film was screened to test audiences with negative results, with many labeling it confusing and messy; in response, Sony and MRC spent $6 million on reshoots to fill in the backstory of Idris Elba's character.the Gunslinger.
